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stique edited by Maurice de Wulf in Louvain and a Bibliographia
Astronomica was sponsored by the Belgian Society
for Astronomy. 2 Moreover, as a result of the agreement at the
end of 1895 between OIB and the Concilium Bibliographicum
in Zurich, copies of all the bibliographies of the Concilium
were forwarded as published to Brussels for the RBU. Preparations
for the first of these bibliographies, a Bibliographia
Zoologica, were almost complete at the time of the Conference.
It was estimated that the card edition would contain about
8,000 cards a year and that subscriptions to any or all of its
parts could be taken out. This was actually the Zoologische Anzeiger
which had first appeared in Leipzig in 1878. It continued
to be edited by Carus until his death in 1903 when Field assumed
the editorship. The Concilium Bibliographicum also
planned to publish a Bibliographia Anatomica early in 1896
and, if these two bibliographies were successful, to follow them
with a Bibliographia Physiological In fact, the three bibliographies
appeared as planned and were published regularly
on cards until the outbreak of the first world war.
The OIB also began gradually to expand its own editorial
and bibliographical publishing activities in the service of the
RBU. Apart from the Bibliographia Sociologica, which seems
to have been brought out only three times in its consolidated
form, the OIB from its inception became closely associated
with the Bibliographic de Belgique. The main part of this was
•examined at the Office and classification numbers assigned
entries in it. The Office also undertook to compile, as a second
part of the bibliography, a classified index to Belgian periodicals.
This became a feature of the work until the War. The entries
in all of these bibliographies could be incorporated upon
publication, either directly because they were published in card
form, or after being cut up and pasted on cards, into the Universal
Bibliographic Repertory which began to grow rapidly
as a result.
In the third number of the IIB Bulletin, the whole Universal
Repertory was given the Latin name, Bibliographia Universalis,
and it was reported that «The immense manuscript
of the retrospective part continues to be developed at the Office
in Brussels, dealing at the same time with all the areas
of science and stretching out from the contemporary period
further and further into the past. The current part of the repertory
is kept up by special periodical bibliographies.» 4 Shortly
after this, the term Bibliographia Universalis was restricted
in its application to these bibliographies only, the names of
many of which took the standard Latin form. As the Decimal
Classification was developed in French, and parts of it were
translated into Spanish, Itaiian, German and later into other
languages, and as adequate rules for the arrangement of bib-
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